Incinerating plant.



J.' H. LEA.

INCINERATING PLANT. APPLICATION r1LD1uNE1-1.1915.

1, 175,777. Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

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J. H=. LEA.

INCINERATING PLANT.

APPLICATION F1LEn1uNE11,1915.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE II 1915.

l, 175,777. Patented Mar. 1 4., 1916.

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Sfnhentur JOI-IN HOUSTON LEA, OF COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS.

INCINERATING PLANT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

Application and June 11, 1915. serial No. 33,547.

To all @if/0m it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN H. LEA, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Coffeyville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Incinerating Plants; and I do hereby declare the following to be ya full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to incinerating plants, and while adapted for incinerating a very large range of material, it is especially adapted and intended for incinerating the ordinary city run of garbage and refuse. i An object of the invention is to provide a plant wherein the refuse material is handled with the least expenditure of manual labor, and incinerated bythe use of the minimum amount of fuel outside of the fuel content ofv the refuse itself.

. A further object of the invention is to provide a combustion chamber` of improved type having improved means for charging the refuse into the combustion chamber and dischargingthe ash therefrom.

A further object of the invention is to provide a combustion chamber having swinging doors with a. track passing through the doors and an improved car traveling upon the track inside and outside the combustion chamber upon which the refuse is supported during incineration.

A further object of the invention is to provide in combination with a combustion chamber and a track leading into the combustion chamber of suspended bins above the track having improved meansfor receiving and discharging refuse.

A further object isto provide improved bins having hinged bottom sections for discharging the materialtherefrom with means for preventing the drip of moisture from the bins.

A further objectofthe invention is to provide a bin having a sloping roof top, one section of which folds backwardly tok form a charging chute.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings z--Figure l is a perspective v`view of the plant showing the doors of the combustion chamber open, the car outside the combustion chamber on the track under one of the bins which is discharging niaterial upon the car, another bin being open forming a chute to receive charging material. Fig. 2 is an interior perspective view, the front wall of the combustion chamber being broken away tov sho-w such 4interior view. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the skinning table which is positioned beside the track upon which animals are skinned bcfore being dumped upon the car for incineration. Fig. 4 is a plan. view of the bottom of the combustion chamber, being a horizontal section through the walls and flue. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective View of one corner of the car showing the ash dump.- Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of o-ne corner of the car showing the means of mounting the wheels. Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view through the wheel mounting taken on line 7 7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a detail view partly in section of a corner of the car. Fig. 9 is a view in end elevation of one of the bins showing the supporting structure and the elevated driveway inv section. Fig. 10 is a view o-f one of the bins in transverse vertical section. yFig. 11 is a view in end elevation of the Skinning table, showing in dotted lines the tilted position for rolling the carcass onto the car. Fig. 12 is a fragmentary detail view of the top of the Hue showing the damper and 0perating means.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts Vthroughout the several views.

The combustion chamber forming a part of this plant comprises side walls 20 and 21, the latter being provided with flue openings 22 and 23 communicating with stacks 24 and 25 respectively. The side walls 20 and 21 are joined by an arched roof 26 preferably built up of heat-insulating material, the eX- act construction however, being accomplished by any of the usual well-known means for producing heat-insulating walls and roofs.' The structure is' completed by an end wall 27 at the rear and a front end wall 2S, the latter being preferably formed with an arched door opening 29 with doors 30 and 3l hinged to the front wall and preferably, though not necessarily, supported by chains 32 and 33 respectively secured to eyebolts 81 and 35 in alinement with the hinges of the doors. Thev front wall is also provided with astoking door 36, aneashdoor Y .37,'and a fluid fuel burner 38, whicli,how

ever, are allof theconventional type and need no further explanationas they form no' part of the present invention.

Nithin the chamberV a grate 39v is positioned to receive fuel from the stoke door 36, and a ledge 40 is constructed preferably substantially on a level with vthe grate, the ash pit beingbelow the level of the ledge.

Located within the combustion chamber thus formed and extending out its front end are rails 4l`and 42 forming a track for the' car vshown as a whole at 43, and which con-` of the' present outturned and secured to the end:v rails asV seen in Fig5. All rails aref-lush ontheir lower edges, but the inner rails'do not rise as high as the side rails, and on the inner faces of the latter are beads Y5l which, together with the upper edges of the` inner rails, afford supports for the deck of the car shown as a whole at 52a`ndA preferably made up ofa plurality of removableplates extending 'the full width of'said frame.

VNear each en'dofthe car body an ash dumping plate 53 is provided, thexsame hav-l ing a shaft 55 fixed along its upper edge and Vdle stands nearly upright, Ybut when the extending at one end through the inner rail y49 into the pocket 48 and upturned into a lever; or handle 56. Whentliis plate is in dumping position as seenV in Fig. 5, the hanplate is `swung upward to a horizontal as seen inFig. 8, the handle moves downward and maybe held in position by a catch 57 pivotally mounted ona lug 59.

Y support for the rock shaft is abrace 54 extending across within the'body of the car, its vends 45 being Vturned outward and securedV to the inner'faces of the rails 49. Be`V tween saidrails the dumping plate 53 moves asit descends, and as it is obvious that it is I shorter'than the distance between the main side rails-'44, filler-plates 58 are vprovided to overlie the ends of the pocket 48 and rest on the upper edgesof the inner rails 49 and upon the beads 51, as bestV seen in Fig. 2.

The deck plates 52. are longerutlian- 'the dumping plates and extend acrosstlie full width of the frame so that lthey rest on said beads as well as upon the'inner rails 49, and

therefore there is no necessity for the Vfiller plates except opposite the dumping plates.

For-supporting the body ofthe car as Inside vandf several The hinge Y thus described, four wheels 61 are provided, i'

each having trunnions GOrather than full length axles connecting them in pairs as u sual, Y Each wheel is intended Vto stand upright within one 'of the pockets 48, and its tiunnions rest against the loweredge'sf'of the spaced rails44 and 49. Thelatter areV provided neartheir outer ends with ixed stops 62, and co-acting therewith are other stops 63 which may be screwed orbolted at 68 to the lower edges of the siderails 'at proper distancesfrom the Vfixed stops toY leave arunway 47 between them, said runway restingron-the triinnions. 5 If only a short track from within fthe furnace 4to and past the hoppersis constructed, the runway` 47rneed` not` befVery longg'fbut in plants where a longvtrack is necessary, the mov-V able stops 63 will be soset'a's to make the runways 47 of considerable lengthQQIn 'eitlier'case as the carmoves the wheel travels within the pocket and itnever interferesV with the handle 56 or catch 57, and Vwhat ref-V us'edropsf throughV the pocketv cannot Vfall upon. the trunnions 60 orY lodge" uponf the runways 47,'lwhile such V'refuse asis' dumped' by the'plate 53v never gets into the pockets at all,Y This construction of supportfor the car body is therefore cleanlyand not' liable to become `clogged,it never needsoiling, the wear is Very little, a new wheel with new' trunnionscan'besubstituted at any time,. and the'runway Acan belengthened as the track from the' furnace is extended. an arrangement is preferredto regulation of the chamber tends towwarp or buckle the parts and by constructing them in the manner herein described freer movement oftheV parts in relation to each otlieris per-Y mitted.

Outside the combustion Vchamber fand'4 such;

i bearing boxes vfor thereas'on 'that -tlie-fheiat" ies spanningthe track a Ytimber structure or' trestle is constructed comprising any de si'dernumber of upright posts 64 with cross timbers and longitudinal timbers 66 bel tv 'veenvwhich are supported a plurality of bins of similar construction, suchjbins being show-n in theirentirety' at'67. The bins V67- are provided with hinged hopper' bottoms comprising bottom plates 68 and 69 having end flanges- 70 and 7l,y turned up', onefplate being provided with a lip 732 forming, `when closed, a receptacle .inthe Vbottom* of -the angle for the receiptofjmoistiire from the contentfof the bin. -The holiiperbottoms areV controlled in any usual well-knownmannerf for controlling such hopper bottoni receptacles, one meansbeingshown at Figs.V 1A u and 9, comiiirisin'gfchains"73 and 74 wound about drums carried upona shaft76, and after passing'over rollers T7 and T8 connect with branch chainsf79vand 8Ol which in turn vconnect with the sectionso'f Vthe hopper bottom as shownmore particularly at Figi` 9.

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The shaft 76 is rotated in any approved manner as by the use of crank 81, a pawl and ratchet 82 being provided to prevent return movement. roof-shaped closure is also provided comprising a rigid or permanent section 83 and a hinged section comprising a cover plate 8e With end flanges 8 5 andfa longitudinal ange 86 proportioned and positioned to lieupon the rigid section 88 when closed, and when turned backivardly to the position shown at Fig. 9 to form With vthe other parts a charging chute.

To convey the material to the charging chute a platform 87 is provided, one side being supported by the upright posts 64, While other posts 88 are provided to support the opposite side.

A Wagon loaded with the refuse material to be incinerated is drivenupon the platform, and one of the roof sections moved outwardly to charging position shown at Fig. 9 in the rear of the Wagon, the Wagon then being unloaded by shoveling or dumping the material into the chute which, in view of its inclination, directs the material into the bin. After the bin is iilled or the lWagon is unloaded the cover section is returned to closed position which completely closes the bin and prevents the escape of disagreeable odors until the contents of the bin are dumped upon the car by the actuation of the hopper bottom.

As the incinerating plant is intended to incinerate all manner of Waste material, means are provided for taking care of dead animals. The means preferably comprise a skinning table 89 mounted at one side of the track and adapted to tilt as shovvn more particularly at Fig. 11. The support for this table preferably comprises upright posts or supports 90 connected bv a rock shaft 91 over Which the table is fulcrumed, and an outer support 92. In operation, the animal to be skinned is dumped upon the Skinning table betiveenthe supports 90 and 92. and after the Skinning is completed is rolled over the fulcrum whereupon the table tilts and automatically dumps the carcass upon the car 43.

While the arched structure of the roof of the combustion chamber is such that the gases arising from the material upon the car are gathered in the top of the arch above the flue openings 22 and 23, and are there acted upon by the combustion supported Within the chamber to burn all noxious fumes to an inodorous condition, it is desirable under some conditions to provide a supplemental means for burning the noxious fumes. This takes thev form of a lid or damper 93 set slightlv below the top of the stack as shown at Fig. l2. hinged at 94 and controlled by a wire or cable 95 passing over pulleys 96 and 97 and running down the side of the stack for manual actuation. The fumes are burnedat the topv of the stack as the fumes are 'burned at the top of a blast furnace, the construction being similar thereto and operating upon the same principle.

It is believed that the description of the operation of the several parts and units of the complete plant have been sufficiently described to make a description of the operation unnecessary.

That is claimed is:

1. In an incinerating plant,l a fire-proof car for garbage and the like comprising a frame-like body made up of connected upright end and side rails, inner side rails narrovver than the main side rails and spaced from them to produce pockets, beads on the inner faces of the main side rails flush with the upper edges of the inner side rails, transverse floor plates resting upon said edges and beads, dumping plates shorter than the distance between the inner rails, means for actuating these plates, and filler plates opposite their lends; combined With the running gear located Within said pockets.

2. ln an incinerating plant, a fire-proof car for garbage and the like comprising a frame-like body made up of connected upright end and side rails of the same height, inner side rails narrower than the main side rails but flush With their lower edges and spaced from them to produce pockets, beads on the inner faces of the main side rails flush with the upper edges of the inner side rails, transverse Hoor plates resting upon said edges and beads, dumping plates shorter than the distance between the inner rails, means for actuating these plates, and filler plates opposite their ends; combined with individual Wheels Within said pockets at the corners o-f the frame and each having trunnions on which the lower edges of the main and inner side rails rest, and fixed and adjustable stops on said edges limiting the travel of said trunnions.

3. A fire-proof car for incinerating plants comprising a frame-like body made up of end and side rails connected at their extremities, inner side rails paralleling and spaced from the main side rails and having out-turned ends secured to the end rails so as to leave pockets along the side of the frame. and transverse braces paralleling and spaced from the end rails and having their ends turned aside and secured to the inner side rails so as to leave dumping openings at the ends of the frame; combined With floor plates extending across the frame and prckets excepting at the ends of the frame, dumping plates in the dumping openings, a rock shaft fixed across one edge of each dumping plate. journaled on said brace, and extending out into a pocket. a lever on its extended end, a lug carried by the side rail,

- and a catch pivoted to the lug and' e'gagng 'edges and supplemental siderails'spaced Copies of this patent may be obtained for tive cents each, by addressing from and narrower than the mainY side rails new with their upper edges Hush with said headsY and th'elr extremltles till'neclolltward and secured Within the end rails; combined'with removable deck j plates extending transvv ersely of the frame and resting cn thelup.- peil edges of said supplemental'lrails and on said beads, for the purpose set forth.

v .In testimony whereof I afix my signature.

' V'JoHN `HOUSTON- LEA.

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